REPORT #298 June 2000
THE FREE PRESS IN BELIZE IS FREE, BUT IT IS ALSO USED BY POLITICAL
PARTY GANGS OF BELIZE CITY, TO SIPHON TAX MONEY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
TOWNIE GANG WHEN THEY ARE IN FIVE YEAR POWER!

Produced by the Belize
Development Trust

The press in Belize is relatively free. Unlike Yugoslavia or other
places like Ecuador in South America, at least in Belize, they don't
shoot the reporters, owners and editors. Nor do they throw them in
prison. But the FREE PRESS so called, is also a scam game of graft
perpetuated in the main port of Belize City, which rules Belize like a
plantation economy. The political party gangs of the town who rule
Belize the nation in turn; take turns robbing the government treasury by
selective departmental advertisement payments in their political party
organs. These political party rags are not even found outside the town
of the district of Belize. Even though there are five other districts.
Yet, when in power up in Belmopan, the government advertising vouchers
flow into the coffers of the pseudo newspapers used to promote the
political party line.

As Meb Cutlack of the Reporter newspaper said in an article of May 28,
2000, the party newspapers ( so-called) squander public money on
political party affairs, and castigating their opponents solely for the
benefit of the local town electorate in this one place. These pseudo
newspapers filled with nonsense and name calling, innuendos and thinly
veiled slander, sling mud at the other political party gang in the town,
under the guise of being newspapers. When in fact, they are nothing more
than Party propoganda organs.

Meb Cutlack says it right. Unless these party rags have free editorial
authority then it is ludicrous to pretend all the government money spent
with the winning party in office in Belmopan is anything other than
subsidizing by graft that particular political party propoganda.

We've said it before and we'll say it again. Time for you townies to
build a nation! You can start with passing some laws, that say any
advertising spent by any government department must be equally spread in
all six districts, in equal amounts with local papers. This should mean
no party organs qualify!

Quit being greedy and selfish! It's time to build a nation and get out
of this nonsense!